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Rumors that the turkey legs sold at Disney's theme parks are in actuality emu meat have long been in circulation in the online world, and the claim got a boost when it was reference during a 9 March 2017 segment on TBS' Conan talk show: In the segment, actor Zachary Levi (who voiced the character Flynn in the Disney film Tangled) said: This false rumor had already been addressed in the press multiple times, as in a 2012 the Orlando Sentinel short item about emus: In 2013, the New York Times ran the same claim by a turkey industry expert, who disclaimed and noted that many consumers were confused because the turkey legs sold in Disney parks are typically bigger than what people are used to seeing in their Thanksgiving dinners: In March 2017, the Orlando Sentinel revisited the rumor, citing a wildlife expert, a food expert, and an executive chef at Disney who explained why the rumor wasn't credible: The relative costs of emu versus turkey also makes rumors about the sale of emu legs at Disney parks implausible, as reported in 2015 by National Geographic: By contrast, an annual Thanksgiving cost breakdown puts the price of turkey at under $1.50 per pound, making emu meat 16 to 20 times more expensive (and as such, far too expensive to sell as a realistic turkey substitute). Finally, the sale of emu meat falsely identified as turkey at Disney theme parks would fall afoul of the Federal Meat Inspection Act, which prohibits the sale of mislabeled meat.
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